These things are true, at least for the middle and upper middle class doomers in question.

Me: feeling low.
Also me: getting those solar panels and taking the train.

I have sympathy because it really feels like late stage capitalism and authoritarianism are winning and they're sick of making the sacrifices others won't. But you are absolutely right, we have to keep pushing wherever we can as well as pushing for systemic change.

Amateur Hour at the DOJ strikes again.

Occam’s razor prevails, says the news org that settled with Dominion Voting System for $787M

This is the way.

I will do my best to be out of the country on the Orange Menace's birthday but thanks. 🙄

That costume sure doesn't give me much hope, that's for sure. 😳

It was most likely barely a business at best to the guys killed on that boat. Realistically, it's at most a side hustle to make ends meet on weeks when the fish aren't biting.

But that's okay. Trump pardons kingpins, but he can't pardon all the little guys that helped. /sarcasm

The whole Caribbean bombing campaign is illegal, immoral, and bad strategy.

But there's value in focusing on this particular war crime, and the illegal orders that led to it. Blowing up shipwrecked people is so obviously wrong, and people can more easily wrap their head around a single incident.